Michael Haneke

Emmanuelle Riva, who received a best actress Oscar nomination earlier this year for her role as an ailing octogenarian in Michael Haneke's "Amour," is set to return to the stage for the first time in more than a decade in a new production of Marguerite Duras' play "Savannah Bay."

The French-language production is scheduled to open in Paris in February at the Théâtre de l'Atelier and will come to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the following month as part of an international theater festival.

"Savannah Bay" tells the story of a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's death through a long...

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